Zameen.com, Pakistan’s leading property portal, has closed a venture round with Singapore-based Catcha Group and Frontier Digital Ventures. Following this deal, both Catcha Group and Frontier Digital Ventures have acquired a substantial but non-controlling interest in Zameen.com.
Zameen.com was founded in 2006 by two Pakistani entrepreneur ...

US first lady Michelle Obama posted on Instagram a photo of here self supporting the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria under the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, that campaign went viral but activist did not let such hypocrisy go unnoticed from the wife of a president who killed thousands of innocent people in drone attacks including many children in...

Abdlah Assm the young Egytpian inventor who is 17 years old has an invention which is eye glass which enables disabled people to use computers and communicate with the world using the eye’s movement, he was arrested last month and charged with fabricated crimes.
AC has been reporting the situation of one of Egypt’s young scientist Abdlah, ...

King Abballah of Jordan is visiting Silicon Valley, he attended Innovative Jordan conference in Berkley California, USA were he delivered a speech.
The King visited the valley along with a number of Jordanian tech entrepreneurs and executives and the aim is to promote Jordan tech and startup sector.
During his visit, Jordanian Royal Has...

egypt coup fabrication of crimes.
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Last month the coup regime in Egypt arrested one of the youngest inventors in the country, he is 17 years old Abdlah Assm.
He was going to be charged with fabricated crimes of burning a police car and demonstrating illegally....

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Bey2ollak is a Cross Platform crowed sourced Mobile application for people to exchange info about traffic that uses the power of crowd-sourcing, social interaction, localization as a why to help user in navigation and avoiding trafic jams in Egypt.
AC wrote about Bey2ollak before here...

In the last few days southern city of Jordan Maan has seen demonstrations and clashes between anti riot police and the people of the city.
Activists in social media has reported that the regime has blocked the Internet in the city today.
ArabCrunch could not verify from independent sources the blocked news but we will keep you posted.
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Egyptian geeks and members of the tech community have expressed objection and anger against the arrest by the Egyptian government of 17 years old high school scientist Abdallah Assem.
Abdallah Assem, was supposed to travel to the US next month to represent Egypt in Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) with his invention of a eye glass whi...

There are a very few Bitcoin ATMs in the United States, and many more worldwide but for the Arab world until recently there has been non.
For those who do not know what Bitcoin is, it is a cryptocurrency that is P2P and is not controlled by any central authority.
Sergey Yusupov co-founder of umbrellab a bitcoin software company posted on T...

Another sad and bad news for troubled Egypt, Intel is closing its offices in Egypt and firing all employees according to sources in Egypt.
Intel confirmed the news and said its closing its R&D and engineering unit in a statement sent to the media Intel said that it is committed to the Egyptian market and the decision have nothing to do wit...